Desk Report: This may be one of the most bizarre things that you hear today. An app launched in India’s Mumbai -named Rent A Boyfriend – claims to ‘cure depression’ by ‘renting a boyfriend’. Launched in Pune and Mumbai, Rent A Boyfriend (RABF) is the brainchild of 29- year-old Kaushal Prakash, who claims to have…
Kabir Humayun: The Election Commission is mulling to finalise over 40,000 polling stations across the country on September 6. As the national election inches closer, the commission has already asked its field-level officials to send lists of possible polling stations to the EC Secretariat after disposing of complaints by August 30, reports Asian Age. An…
BBC: An Australian government MP has revealed she will not contest the next election, condemning the parliament’s “bullying and intimidation” of women. Julia Banks branded a party coup that ousted Malcolm Turnbull as PM last week as “the final straw” in her decision. In a withering statement, Ms Banks took aim at the “scourge of cultural…
BSS: The International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICCB) opined that the influx of Rohingya refugees created pressure on economy and overall security of Bangladesh. “The Rohingya crisis has created a multi-dimensional problem for Bangladesh. “For hosting Rohingyas the economy and environment of Bangladesh have been affected adversely,” the chamber observed in the editorial of its current…
AP news: Michelle Janikian, who writes about marijuana for publications like Herb, Playboy and Rolling Stone, says after she tells someone what she does for a living, she usually spends the rest of the conversation “trying to act so friendly and mainstream” so they don’t think she’s stoned. Adam Salcido relates that after he went…
AP: A soldier based in Hawaii who is accused of pledging allegiance to Daesh and fixating on videos of beheadings and suicide bombings planned to plead guilty Wednesday to attempting to support the terrorist group. Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang is set to plead guilty as charged in an indictment last year, defense attorney Birney…
IB Times: After the devastating Kerala floods, there was another deluge. Official statistics now reveal that Keralites consumed liquor worth Rs 516 crore in the ten days after the floods. It was as if the floodgates opened at the hundreds of beverages outlets in the state. That’s interesting numbers, despite the fact that Kerala routinely figures among…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her party is devoted for welfare of the people out of its political commitment, not only for getting their vote. She came up with the statement while inaugurating Community Vision Centers in 20 upazilas of eight districts surrounding Bagamata Sheikh Fazilatun Nesa Mujib Eye Hospital and Training…
Reuters: Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan will skip next month’s United Nations General Assembly session to focus his attention on the country’s economy, said his foreign minister. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will head the Pakistani delegation at 73rd U.N. General Assembly session set to open on September 18. “No, the prime minister is…
Desk Report: People of Satpua union in Sarishabari upazila in the district and Munsurnagar union under Kazipur upazila of Sirajganj have been suffering much for want of a bridge over a branch of the Jamuna river, thanks to the indifference of the authorities concerned, reports Daily Star. Around 50,000 people of three villages in Satpua…